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JOsEPH " DRExEL,s GIFT
He Presents . Fine Painting to Acorn II
Executive Manslsn In Albany.

AAo EpscubS = &Ino &AsuShuB 70 A0OFn tao
Exscstive Mansisn In Albany.
Albany, June THE Hon. Joseph w.
Drexel has presented . fne painting, costing
$4,000 by Edward Gay. the New York artist. to
the State. for tho adornment Of the new Ex-
ecutive Manslon. which Gov. Hill will take
possession Of next week. Tho following cor
respondenoe has passed:
New YoRk, Juno g. 1887.
understandng that you about removing the now
Executive Mansion, trust you will pardon tho liberty
hope that other: Win follow the example. am, With
hishest rssPsot yours vary truly
EXECUTIVE NAssoN, ALBANY, June T.
and The On: picture which you have Kindly sent
been placed In the new Executive Mansion. On behalf
Of the STATE am GLAD 70 accept this token Of inter
est In this State building and It viii give pleasure
have plate nxed upon the frame diving the nane Of
the donor and otherwise suitably inscribed.
the largo wall spaces AFFORD excellent opportunity for
the display OF appropriate pictures The State has
ADDED picture since II became the possessor Of those
indifferent ones which left BY former and
Yh the houss At ,h 81 n Of ton
spirited ctiaeus Who take Just pride In State will
be inclined to follow your example 90 that long the
STATE may have in the OF the Executive col
lection Of paintings Of which every citizen may Justly
be proud.
Thanking GU personally well tho part Of the
6tsts for tho magnificent work of which you
generously nven remain with expressions Of highest
10 JosErG W. bRx1Ii- Esq, New York City.
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For Whom Has Alma Tadema Designed =
Planet
From the London 1Suses.

From the London ruscs
A remarkable piano. part Of commission
for New York gentleman, has been designed by Mr.
Alma radsma, r. A., and ID nns example both Of tho
artists and of the treatment OF sumptuous and
dicut material by English workmen. Its shape Is that
Of ordinary grand piano, but tho groundwork is
ebony legs carved lions and tigers Of oak; and
the decorative details OF cedar, lockwood, and ivory
make tho instrument very unlike the usual drawing
room ninro
near inspection shows docately carved and inlAid
borders OF classical scroll work; nj little distance
percsyes the great beauty Of the tawny ebony in
bination with red cedar and yellow boxwood It should
be added that the keyboard little long low pic,
ture by Mr. POINTER classical piece In which wan
dsrng Ministries pipe to maidens dancing In garden
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slow Work on the P.a.na Canal.

A civil engineer Just from Panama says that
tho American Construction and Dredging Company at
Colon the only contractors doing good and telling
work on he Panama Canal Their huge drsdges are
cutting abroad and deep swsth inland American puah
and energy alone being visible on the Colon aldo Of the
year has been ss.onishinsiy small Il dtrsEs along In
costing s2Oo 900 each are Idle In the nay Of Panama
Others are working doing useless dredging In alt thai
washes backward and forward with the udee ~ '
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A New Wall for Grace CAureAyard.

The building adjoining Grace Churchyard
on the north Is coming down. and with It the butrsasss
and Gothic arches which ornamented It's south wall and
matched the architecture of the church There w.r. no
windows In this wall and Mr. Orlando H. Potter who is
about to erect new building has agreed 10 aIinnry
ornamsn its sosth Wall IN eonsiteraoR Of the church
y The agreement was ned IN the Registers oiice on
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ing colo many OF the minor snd feW OF gfO more
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to hope tQE Y happy p eEsnelioAh Ssii y ryIaSr
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To condemn President CLEVELAND for his
veto Of the Dependent Pension bill 10 to con-
denim him for doing right thing.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
GEMS OF NONSENSE.
Specimen Passages from the Republic
Ex-Speaker's Garfield Grafton.

Specimen Passages from the Republican
Ex-Speaker's Garfield Grafton.
We are indebted to Mr.. Keifer, of
Ohio, for copy of his Grafton on Cen
eral Garfield. We can not print it in
full A few specimen passages will
give an idea of Mr.. Keifer's oratory:
ITO be esteemed a worthy citizen in the
time and of the country in which he, lived a
man must be possessed Of more fulness of life,
more generosity OF soul and more love for his
fellow men than was accounted necessary to
good citizenship in past generations"
Citizenship in o ur country includes sover.
eighty and power or capacity to command or
direct the affairs Of state.'
IA citizen Of our country must he filled with
the philanthropy incident to the perfected civil
lzation grown up over the grave of the barbar-
ism Of the dead past"
The people of this purified U MON, being
imbued with spirit Of personal integrity, de-
mand Of the statesman freedom from corrup-
tion, and an exalted policy in keeping with
their own lofty character
Garfield lived in an age and country where
pure patriotism stamped the citizen with the
majesty of greatness more than in any other
age or government"
Art and letters may satisfy restless genius,
but physical heroism is necessary to inspire
patriotism
He at least believed in substituting for the
blind the sight Of knowledge, and for the
maniac the sanctuary OF comfortable repose,
regned over by tender, God-like care.''
After looking through Mr.. Keifer's
address, which is full of just such pas
sages as these, we can readily under
stand why so determined an effort was
made to deter hirA, from appearing at
the unvailing 81 the Garfield statue
and speaking his piece. 1t IS plain
that somebody who respected General
Garfeld's memory had read the ora
ton beforehand. But we can not un-
derstand why the courts were not ap-
pealed to to prevent the outrage.-M
y Sun.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

as-
-Methodism is still the most power
full denomination in the South, especi-
ally in Georgia.
The London Road Car Company.
to their credit, stand out against the
practice of running cars on Sunday. al.
though they believe their dividend
could be increased one per cent. by
adopting it.
AT Mr.. Moody's two schools in
Northfeld over five hundred young
men and women are now being educat
ed to become missionaries. teacher,
and workers in other branches q
Christian effort.
Higher education has made great
advancement in Greece during recent
years. The lyceum for girls has sta6
of seventy-six teachers and !, 500 pupils.
nliteracy in the kingdom is rare, even
in the out-of-the-way hill countries
"A little girl in Boston school who
was asked to define the word .redress
promptly replied that it meant female
reader. Aud little girl in an English
school recently gave ''gandress" as
feminine of "gander." - Cincinnati
Times.
"A man with patched garments re-
Gently came into the rooms of a London
missionary society to beg, as was fear
ed, but taking out a package OF bank.
notes he said he wished them to be
used in preaching Christ to the heather.
His Oift Amounted tn 4975
The Turkish Government officials
have now put the seal of the Sultan on
thirty-two editions of the Arabic Scrip
lures and parts of Scriptures, thus Civ
ing the sanction of the Imperial Caliph
of Islam for the free circulation of the
word of God.-.M " Christian Id
uocate.
Miami University, Oxford, O., was
never in safer and better condition.
The rents of land, the interest of the
accumulated fund, tuition and room
rents bring an annual income Of $14, 900.
and the State of Ohio appropriated $4,-
450 as contingent fund, total reve-
nue. of SIS, $50 for the current year.
Rev. L. Lloyd, of the Church of
| England, who has been laboring in
Fuh Chow since 1876, states that the
1000 converts whom he found on
going to Fuh Chow have been increas-
ed to the grand total Of 5000, and of
these he himself has been privileged to
baptize one thousand. Public Opinion.
| The various missionary societies
have Combined fleet of from twenty
| five to thirty missionary vessels
steamers, sehooners and sloops-fiye
of which belong to the London Mis-
sionary Society, and three each to the
Church Missionary Society. the Mora
vians and the Central African Lakes
Company.
DIR. Lucy M. Hall, physician Of
Vassar, has kept list of the number
of days each girl has been absent from
illness during the year, and compared
it with a similar record kept of the
| young men at Amherst College. She
finds that the girls are not absent near
| ly as much from sickness as the young
men.-IndianapoEs Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

a dispatch from Parls says Nj. Herbette,
the French Embassador to Germany, on o
recent visit to Paris brought an autograph
letter from Emperor William to President
Grevy, in which the Emperor expressed
hope that the lives of neither might be sad
dened by the horrors of another war.
John Thompson, a boat builder, left Ham,
ilton, Ont, on the evening of the 24th for
row on the bay in skiff, taking with him
his wife, Miss Vincent, his wife's sister,
and three children. Thompson's body was
washed ashore the next morning, and it is
supposed that the boat was upset in squall
and all were lost. Nothing has been heard
of the other occupants Of the boat.
An autograph manuscript of Napoleon L.,
being fragment of the History of Corsica,
which he wrote in 1890, was sold at Paris
an Englishman.
The fires threatened in twenty-four in
cendiary placards recently posted at st.
Petersburg have, in many instances, taken
place. Sixty villas have been burned,
causing loss Of several million roubles
William Brabazon, Earl of Meath and
Baron of Ardee, Scotland, is dead, aged
eighty-four.
The great cotton mill of Parent & Le-
maire, at Roubaix, France, was destroyed
by fire few days ago
Lord Colin Campbell, who was recently
declared bankrupt on the petition of the
Duke Of Marlborough, has filed his consent
to the decision of the court, together with
a statement of his affairs. His liabilities
are placed at e9, 900, including $4,000 law
costs.
Before the steamer Thanemore, which
arrived at Quebec on the 9th ult., left the
Mersey, number of stowaways were found
and landed Seventeen more were found
when the vessel was off the coast of Ireland
and were put ashore, and when the ship
was well out at sea sixteen additional free
passengers turned up, making in all forty
three young men and boys who had secret
ed themselves on board the vessel at Liver
pool.
Latest advices from Buenos Ayres state
that cholera is making frightful ravages
in that portion of the Argentine Republic.
People in Buenos Ayres and its suburbs
were dying off like sheep and the disease
was rapidly spreading
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
HONEST AND PATRIOTIC.
The Fashioned Democrat . Man Of
Whom tho Country Can BE Proud.

The Old-Fashioned Democrat . Man Of
Whom tho Country Can BE Proud.
When man is appointed to Office.
or receives any special honors at the
hands of the President or people, it is
the custom of the time to speak of his
political standing, his record as to
party and principles, and frequently
the phrase ''an old-fashioned Demo-
crat'' is applied to him by men not of
his own party. There is something
wholesome in this; compliment to
the mans staying and sterling quail
ties. Hon. Edward F. Brigham, the
recently appointed Chief Justice of the
District of Columbia, is thus mem
toned; ex-senator Thurman also, and
others, whom the people know and re-
spect.
can old-fashioned Democrat is sure
to be an upright citizen. He believes
in something and sticks to it; he stud
les men, analyses measures, weighs
opinions and puts every question to
the test. If he is in business he meets
his obligations like a man, deals on
the square, says "no" when he means
no." and is just as ready to help an
opponent in distress as one of his own
party associates. With him right is
right, and fair play is fair play; to do o
mean or dishonorable action is foreign
to his nature; as a rule, he loves well
and hates well, and the man who be-
trays his party, or is guilty of decep-
ton or fraud, is in his eyes criminal
The old-fashioned Democrat is more
publican; he may oppose cutting down
a tree, because it symbolizes his own
life in some respects, but let him be-
come convinced that the tree endan-
gers human life, or stands in the way
of needed improvement for the gen
eral good, and he will, if it need be,
fell it with his own hands. He is op-
posed to quarreling on principle, but
fights when justice demands it, with a
persistency unknown to his meeker
| brethren.
If you are fortunate enough to know
him intimately you will find him in So
cial life the soul of honor, the truest of
friends and the most devoted husband
and father, His absolute truthfulness
and downright earnestness in some
times mistaken for obstinacy, but how
ever brusque he may be, he is man
to trust in an emergency, a friend to
rely upon in trouble, citizen to be re-
vered and patriot at heart, whether
he stands in the legislative halls of the
nation, wears the judicial ermine, or
mends shoes in some quiet alley.
| Wherever you find him you will find
a man of solid worth, whose opinion
on any subject is valuable, and whose
daily life is constant reproach to the
rascals who live by fraud. Take him
for all in all, the old-fashioned Demo
crat is man to be proud of, and our
old city of Boston is most fortunate in
having many such within her borders.
Boston Globe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
The Old Lady Settled 1t.

Mr. Clark and his wife were going to
California, but it is just possible that
they will give up the enterprise. 1t
happened in this way.
Mr.. Clark was reading an article
about the country from paper sent
him, and had just reached sentence
beginning with: The mean tempera-
ture of Californy,'' when Mrs. Clark
laid down her knitting.
"That settles it," she said, taking off
her specs. II amt agoin' to any coun-
try where the temperature is any
meaner than it is to home. We amt
goin' to go" "-Detroit Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
A JOKE FROM LIFE.
An insurance mans Flying Trip to Detect
Horrible Crime.

An insurance mans Flying Trip to Detect
Horrible Crime.
''Have you heard the new joke on
JohnsonP" asked the latest addition to
a group of insurance men who were
swapping stories in an up town hotel
the other day. No one could confess
to familiarity with Johnson's escapade
and the speaker leaned back on his
chair and began the following yarn:
''Johnson's a first rate adjuster, as
you know. Good all-around man, Just
as much at home trying to convince a
lady that the damage to her drawing
room furniture can be summed up, item
by item, if she will only give her mind
to the job, as he is at bullying an old
clothes dealer into taking twenty-five
per cent of his original estimate of loss
es. But his specially is the unear thing
of frauds. Well the other week he had
a loss. His headquarters are in Roches-
ter, but nights travel put him ON the
scene of the fire. A gentleman who re-
joiced in the name OF Himmelberger-
or words to that effect-had had his
stock of twice-worn clothing burned up.
johnson was satisfied in his own mind,
with the keen instinct of an old in
surance man, that there was something
crooked about the affair, but he couldn' t
lay his hand on any proofs. So he set
tied up the loss, all but paying over
the money, and went back to Roches-
ter determined to await the expiration
of the sixty days allowed by law before
paying up, in hope that something
might come to light in the meantime.
At Rochester he found this telegram
awaiting him.
"'Don't settle Himmelberger's loss till you see
my daughter Unetta.
]. voGELsrEIN, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
"'Aha! said the su spicious johnson
this is the key to the whole matter So
he posted back again to Poughkeepsie,
telegraphing his agent to have Unetta,
Vogelstein at the Office when he should
reach there. The agent didn't get the
telegram, so he and johnson got car
riage and drove to the Vogelstein man.
sion, which was on the outskirts of the
town. They raped at the door of a
little box of wooden house and asked
for Unetta and were shown into little
sitting room, where the daughter of the
house was darping stockings.
"'Now, my good GIRL said johnson,
with his most seductive smile, after ex-
planning who he was, Just tell me as
quickly as you can all that you know
about this loss. Give me all the cir
cumstances in the case. know that
it may be disagreeable, but remember
that whatever happens you have a
friend in me who will see that no harm
comes to you. And then you will al
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
LATER NEWS.

CHRISTIAN K. Ross, the father Ct the
lost Charley Ross, received visit from
a stranger, who told him that his son was
serving a sentence in Connecticut
prison.
NINETY-oNE bodies have been recovered
from the ruins Of the Opera Comique,
Paris.
TIE new French Cabinet has been
formed. General Saussier succeeds Cen
eral Boulanger as Minister of War.
The internal revenue collections for the
ten months ended April 30 were $50, $50 less
than for the corresponding period of the
preceding fiscal year.
DAVID MORGAN, alias J. F. Sullivan, of
New Castle, Pa, committed suicide in the
county jail at Pittsburgh by hanging him
self with his suspenders.
DIR. DEGRoFF's residence in Hoboken, N.
j., was burglarized of 800 in money,
50, 700 in Adams Express bonds, and about
5000 in silverware.
JAMES CoNNALLY and an unknown man
were burned to death in shanty at Mer-
rill's Corners, N. Y. Michael Baker re-
turned for his pocket-book and was horri-
bly, burned.
GAS has been struck near Miamisburg,
O., at depth of 42O feet.
In fight at Pittsburgh between non
Unionists and Knights of Labor, Knight
named Green was fatally shot.
A STABLE at Columbus, O., occupied by
the White Sewing Machine Company,
burned on the 29th, and four horses per-
ished in the flames.
CLARENCE HOUSE. Herbert Jones and
Estella Coole were drowned in Mohawk
river, near Utica, N. Y, by the capsizing
of their boat
HENRY STEWART escaped from Sing Sing
by concealing himself in packing-case,
and being hauled from the institution and
deposited in freight car for shipment.
A SCIENTIFIC expert reports that iron
ore exists in the vicinity of Tyler, Tex, in
sufficient quantity to supply all the found
ries of the world for one hundred years.
Two hundred and eighty-eight witnesses
have been examined in the Stanyard muir
der case at Youngstown, @, and the costs
already exceed $1,000.
AT Natchez, Miss, the boiler in the
Natchez Cotton Factory exploded, doing
great damage to the building and killing
five employees and injuring many more.
THE Prohibitionists of Allen County, O.,
| have placed full county ticket in the
| field.
| IT is reported that rose-bugs are doing
| much damage to the peach crop in Mary
| land.
FRANK BASIL, brakeman on the c., w.
& B., was crushed to death by the cars at
| Loveland, o.
BEN: PERLEY PooRE, the veteran jour
! nalist, died at the Ebbitt House, Washing;
ton, at IL rs Sunday morning.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

total Of 175, against $50 the previous week
and 1Sl the corresponding week of last
year.
Mrs. Mary Alstead. of Harrisburg, Pa,
while in performance of her duties as pres
ident of the biennial convention of the
home and foreign missionary societies of
the Lutheran Church at Wooster, O., on
the 26th ult., became suddenly insane. Her
condition at last accounts was considered
critical.
Maps and plans for new railroad be-
tween New York City and Boston have
been filed in the Registers Office Of the
former city. The estimated cost-double-
tracked-including right of way into New
York City, is about S23.0OO, 900, or over
S125, 900 per mile. 1t is proposed to shorten
the remaining time between Boston and
New York from six hours to three hours
and a half
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

ways have the satisfaction of having
helped in the detection of crime
"'Vell,' said the fair Unetta, as she
'gazed in dazed manner at her visi-
tors, 'all know ish dot Mr.. Himmel-
berger owes me eighteen dollars for
vort, an want you to shtop it out Of
his monish!'
"a rapid calculation, including car
fare for six hundred miles, hotel bill,
two days time and cab hire went
through Johnson's mind in about one
and three-quarter seconds, and then he
tainted. IN. Y Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
LIABLE TO EXPLODE.
Species of Humanity Which Is to be Found
AtEvery Confagration.

Every Confagration.
The man who thinks something is
going 10 explode is always at fire.
The other day we sat on a lumber
pile and watched a planning mill burn,
and told every body who came along
Just where the firemen were making a
mistake and how they ought to do it,
just like every body else.
A little man with red eyes came up
and in confidential manner said:
"Say, dye know that thing is i'ble
to blow up?'
"No."
'.Fact. They say there's two bar
rels of gunpowder stored in the fur
ther end and it's lfble to go at any
time"
"How did it come there?"
"Don't know, but it's there for sure.
Be a good many killed when it goes
off,
"Yes."
Then he walked little nearer the
fire and began warning one of the fire.
men.
A minute later a fat man stepped up
and said:
s'Say. see here minute
"Well, what is it?''
There's barrels of gasoline and
benzine stored in the basement of that
air mill-yes, sir, they're in there now
and they'll blow up
'.Is that sop
"So? Yes, sir, they're bound to
blow up, can't help it, i'ble to go at
any minute. It's going to kill lots of
people, too. Why don't the police
order folks back?"
'tDon't know"
Then he walked away and told his
story to another. Just then a thin
man who was going by on the run
stopped. and said very excitedly:
..Hi, there. move back, move back,
fore you get blowed up!''
"What's the matter?''
"Going to be terrible loss Of life here
in about minute. Owner of mill told
me there's lot O. dynamite in the sec
ond story, and when it falls it will kill
ha'f this crowd. They better be get
ting back fore it's too late" and he
rushed over so close to the fire that he
had to hold his hat before his face.
After about five minutes more an un-
decided looking man, wearing a long
coat, edged along and said:
bad fire."
Eyes"
"Hope there won't be any body
hurt
Hope not"
"Say," he continued, and his voice
sank almost to a whisper, 81 s'pose
you don't know nothin' bout the b'iler
in the mime room, do youP''
..No."
Thought not. They say it's chuck
full of steam and water.''
"Wouldn't be surprised"
ga feller over here told me they were
carrying three hundred and forty
pounds of steam when she caught fire. ~
Probably"
"Why, you don't seem to be scart9''
"No."
"Don't you know that when that
b'iler gets hot that it's going to rip
things?"
ssThink it willp"
81 know tive seen b'ilers blow up
at fires and tear every thing all to
pieces and kill ever SO many people.
This one is bound to go inside of ten
minutes. 1 should think people would
get back out of the way" and he went
over little nearer to the scene of the
coming explosion, and the last we saw
when we came away was the four of
them down close to the fire talking ii
oyer,-DaEotG Bell